Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 55
They all stood in circles round the princess, and the nearer they stood to the door, the prouder they looked.
Who acts: boots · What happens: stand, look · To what, where: circles, prouder
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 stood | advmod |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 circles | case |
| 5 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 princess | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nearer | det |
| 12 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 stood | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 prouder | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prouder | det |
| 20 | prouder | prouder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 door | appos |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 prouder | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | boots = boot | circles | round the princess | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | boots = boot | to the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | past | boots = boot | the prouder not said here | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme prouder=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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